Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous investigations have demonstrated how provision of emotionally relevant information can influence the way people interpret their own behaviour and in turn whether they respond emotionally or non-emotionally to a given situation . |
| 2 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 3 | The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself . |
| 4 | Move forward seventy years or so to a different household in another part of France . |
| 5 | Maybe we Scots and Irish have paid a high price for our long memories , but who in Scotland or Ireland has not some attitude to the Great Hunger , or the Clearances , or just to a vague morass of names , Culloden and Robert the Bruce and Rebel Songs ? |
| 6 | A charcuterie in Aurillac or Vic-sur-Cère or some other small but locally important town will possibly provide a pâté the like of which you never tasted before , or a locally cured ham , a few slices of which you will buy and carry away with a salad , a kilo of peaches , a bottle of Monbazillac and a baton of bread , and somewhere on a hillside amid the mile upon mile of golden broom or close to a splashing waterfall you will have , just for once , the ideal picnic . |
| 7 | Tipping can add £40 or more to a 10-day cruise , but some cruise lines have abolished the custom . |
| 8 | The Hotel American invites all Amsterdam Travel Service guests who stay 3 nights or more to a free dinner . |
| 9 | A protest can extend from a lone voice on a box at a street corner to a riot or even to a civil war . |
| 10 | The key issue is not how to reduce the observer 's role to zero ( or even to an absolute minimum ) but simply how to render it at least as explicit , as clear , and as quantitatively specifiable as any other aspect of the system under study , so that other observers will know how to look at the same phenomena from the same perspective , should they care to do so . ’ |
| 11 | Of course to a stranger — or even to an experienced midwife — the only real link between any baby and its parents is the arm or leg tag bearing its mother 's name , own weight and date of birth . |
| 12 | One answer that has been proposed is that they somehow ‘ tunnel ’ their way instantaneously to another part of the Universe — or even to an alternate Universe . |
| 13 | This might be via a dunk tank or entry port to an isolator or simply to a clean isolation room . |
| 14 | The second type of case deals with situations where the legislation refers to sums being paid directly or indirectly to a particular person ( for example , see TA 1988 , s677 — although the expression was subsequently extended by what is now s677(10) ) . |
| 15 | Therefore , adherence or otherwise to an existing code of practice would be relevant in establishing whether or not the defence of best practicable means can be established . |
| 16 | They to and fro to a chirping tap |
| 17 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 18 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 19 | Without waiting to be shown , she walked through the primitive kitchen and on to a small balcony perched perilously above the red-tiled roofs of the houses below . |
| 20 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 21 | Nonetheless he ordered the San Antonio and the Concepción into the headwaters of the bay — only to be horrified when he saw them being swept by unsuspected currents and winds into a huge maelstrom of surf and spindrift , and on to a wicked-looking spur of black rock . |
| 22 | He directs Rainbow into a side road , and on to a semicircular driveway before a handsome villa — probably late Regency , perfect of its kind . |
| 23 | A commitment ideologically and professionally to a holistic assessment of need and risk , rather than the assessment of eligibility for service , is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for effective assessment practice . |
| 24 | This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university . |
| 25 | Also , and perhaps to a greater extent , a man is what he has smelt : later in the novel Raskolnikov gives the police-station smell as the reason for the suspicious circumstance of his fainting , which is neither the whole truth nor a straight lie but the blending of the guilty man with the Poison of the city . |
| 26 | Absorption is commonly used as a method of odour abatement where odour nuisance is the result of a gas stream becoming contaminated with low concentrations of mixtures of compounds such as fatty acids , ammonia , amines , sulphur dioxide , and perhaps to a lesser extent sulphides and organic sulphur compounds , i.e . |
| 27 | Morse thanked the man , and walked along to the ramp at the side of the flats , and down to a concreted area where five garages directly in front of him shielded the immediate view . |
| 28 | Jakobson 's poetic analyses are mostly concerned with establishing the mere presence of relationships of equivalence , and only to a small degree with discussing their significance . |
| 29 | He once wrote : ‘ I am not fond of writing about myself and only to a less degree about my work . ’ |
| 30 | The following remarks apply particularly to the roundhouse kick and the side kick and only to a lesser extent to the front kick . |